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9780739111512

The New African Diaspora in North America Trends, Community Building, and Adaptation

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  • ISBN13:

    9780739111512

  • ISBN10:

    0739111515

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-07-21
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
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List Price: $129.00

Summary

The New African Diaspora in North America brings together sociologists, social workers, geographers, economists, anthropologists and others to explore the African immigrant experience from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The contributors shed light on the factors behind the increasing wave in African immigration to the U.S. and Canada, the socio-economic characteristics of African immigrants, their spatial distribution, obstacles, and contributions.

Table of Contents

An overview of African immigration to U.S. and Canadap. 2
Theoretical perspectives on African migrationp. 13
The contradictions of globalization : causes of contemporary African immigration to the United States of Americap. 29
Location and settlement patterns of African immigrants in the U.S. : demographics and spatial contextp. 50
African immigrants in Canada : trends, socio-demographic and spatial aspectsp. 69
Creating the vertical village : Senegalese traditions of immigration and transnational cultural lifep. 96
Ethnic identity, conflict, and diasporic constructions in the new world : the case of Asante in North Americap. 107
Still praisin' God in a new land : African immigrant Christianity in North Americap. 121
Nigerians in North America : new frontiers, old associations?p. 141
Africans in the diaspora : black-white earnings differences among America's Africansp. 168
Unintended consequences : liberalized U.S. immigration law and the African brain drainp. 189
Knocking at the door : professional African immigrant and refugee women's experiences in the Toronto Labor Marketp. 209
Lifting the yoke of tradition : new African market-women diaspora : from Kaneshie, Accra to Harlem, New Yorkp. 235
English language acquisition and some pedagogical issues affecting the adaptation of African immigrant childrenp. 257
Transnationalism among African immigrants in North America : the case of Ghanaians in Canadap. 273
The new African diaspora in North America : policy implicationsp. 287
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